New Logo, Spotlight on Sci-Fi, Digital Playground | Anima Brussels Festival Announce Changes
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The Brussels International Animation Film Festival, which takes place every year during the carnival holiday, is changing with the public and its expectations.
A DIGITAL PLAYGROUND
For its next edition, the 43rd, Anima is expanding the activities available for children. Besides the many films for all ages (from 3 upwards), creative workshops and the traditional pancakes, Anima will be offering for the very first time an ambitious digital playground, open every day of the Festival, where the whole family can have fun trying their hand at new animation technologies.
ANIMA Brussels © Lieven van Velthoven
For its next edition, the 43rd, Anima is expanding the activities available for children. Besides the many films for all ages (from 3 upwards), creative workshops and the traditional pancakes, Anima will be offering for the very first time an ambitious digital playground, open every day of the Festival, where the whole family can have fun trying their hand at new animation technologies.
SPOTLIGHT ON SCI-FI
Taking its cue from contemporary trends, Anima 2024 will turn the spotlight on science fiction in animation, with a host of new feature-length and short films, as well as reruns of some of the genre’s iconic films. A major retrospective of some of the classics will also be organized at Cinematek.
AN ADDITIONAL VENUE: THE MARNI
Although the heart of the Festival remains the sublime and indeed spacious Flagey liner, as it has been since 2007, Anima is adding a new venue to meet the expectations of the public and to accommodate an increasingly rich programme. Anima will therefore also take place at the nearby Théâtre Marni, on the other side of Place Flagey, with some thirty additional screenings.
A NEW LOGO
In other major news, Anima is getting a new look with a new logo, the fourth in its history! Hartland Villa, the Brussels- and Paris-based graphic design studio of Lionel Avignon and Stefan de Vivies, has condensed Anima’s soul into this new logo, which is both assertive and dynamic, reflecting its joyful and playful atmosphere, and with a touch of animism: little eyes reminiscent of the trophy characters awarded to the winners of the Festival’s various competitions.
Anima is also the only animation Festival in Belgium to qualify for the Oscars. The results of the film selections will be announced on 1 December.
Anima will run from 23 February to 3 March 2024 at Flagey, Marni and Cinematek as well as in a dozen towns across Wallonia and Flanders. It will also offer a selection of films online on Sooner.